Stow STR46SP manual Make sure the correct depth air, Air Cleaner Components to Check

Air Cleaner Components - See Figure 13.

1. Air Cleaner Cover

2. Latch Spring

3.Lever Latch

4. Latch Lever Pin

5. Wing Nut

6. Inner Air Cleaner Cover

7.Precleaner Element

8.Air Cleaner Element

9. seal

10. Air Cleaner Bracket

11.Air Cleaner Base

12.Air Cleaner Base Gasket

13.Intake Manifold Gasket

14.Intake Manifold

15.screw

Paper Element Service (StandardType)

Check the paper element every 100 hours of operation (more often under extremely dusty or dirty conditions). Replace the element as necessary.

Refer to the following steps and to Figure 13:

1.Release the latches located on either side of the air cleaner cover (Figure 13), and remove the cover.

2.Remove the wing nut, element cover, seal and air cleaner element.

3.Remove the precleaner (if so equipped) from the paper element.

4.Do not wash the paper element or use pressurized air, as this will damage the element. Replace a dirty, bent, or damaged element with a new element as prescribed by the engine manufacturer. Handle new elements carefully; do not use if the sealing surfaces are bent or damaged.

5.Reinstall the seal, paper element, precleaner, element cover, flat washer and wing nut.

6.Reinstall the air cleaner cover and secure the latches.

Make sure the correct depth air

NOTE cleaner element and rubber seal are used for the engine spec. involved.

STR46SP — MAINTENANCE

Air Cleaner - Components to Check

Whenever the air cleaner cover is removed, or the paper element or precleaner is serviced, check the following:

■Air Cleaner Element Cover and Seal - Make sure the element cover is not bent or damaged. Make sure the wing nut, washer and seal are in place to ensure the element is sealed against leakage.

■Air Cleaner Base - Make sure the base is secured tightly to carburetor and not cracked or damaged.

■BreatherTube - Make sure the tube is installed to both the air cleaner base and the breather cover.

Disassembly and Reassembly (Standard Type)

If the base plate on the standard type must be removed, proceed as follows:

1.Remove the air cleaner components as described previously.

2.Remove the hex flange screws securing the bracket and base.

3.Remove the base and gasket. Carefully pull the rubber breather tube through the base

4.Remove the tube from under side of base if necessary.

5.Reverse the foregoing steps to reinstall new or service components.Tighten screw to 9.9 N-m (88 in. lb.) torque.

Air Intake/Cooling System

To ensure proper cooling, make sure the grass screen and fan cooling fins and other external surfaces of the engine are kept clean at all times.

Every 100 hours of operation (more often under extremely dusty or dirty conditions:

1.Remove the blower housing and other cooling shrouds.

2.Clean the cooling fins and external surfaces as necessary.

3.Make sure the cooling shrouds are reinstalled.

CAUTION

Operating the engine with a blocked grass screen, dirty or plugged cooling fins, and/or cooling shrouds removed, will cause engine damage due to overheating.

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